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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Barber , Francis , 1751 - (search)
Barber, Francis, 1751-
Military officer; born in Princeton, N. J., in 1751; was graduated at the College of New Jersey in 1767, and became rector of an academy at Elizabeth, N. J., and pastor of the Presbyterian Church there in 1769.
Leaving these posts, he joined the New Jersey line in the Continental army as major, in February, 1776.
In November he was made a lieutenant-colonel, and was afterwards assistant inspector-general under Baron Steuben.
He was active in several battles until 1779, when he was adjutant-general in Sullivan's campaign, and was wounded in the battle of Newtown.
In 1781 he was successful in quelling the mutiny of Pennsylvania and New Jersey troops.
He was with the army at Newburg in 1783, and was killed by the falling of a tree while he was riding in the edge of a wood, Feb. 11 the same year.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Democracy in New Netherland. (search)
Harvard University,
The first of the higher seminaries of learning established in America.
The general court of Massachusetts had made some provisions towards educating a succession of learned ministers.
They had established a school at Newtown, the name of which was changed to Cambridge, in honor of the university at which most of the Massachusetts ministers had been educated.
John Harvard endowed the school in his will.
The school was erected into a college, and named, in honor of its benefactor, Harvard College.
Henry Dunster, a Hebrew scholar just arrived in the colony, was chosen its first president.
A class began a collegiate course of study in 1638, and nine graduated in 1642.
Efforts were made to educate Indians for teachers, but only one ever graduated.
In 1642 the general management of the temporalities of the institution was intrusted to a board of trustees, and in 1650 the general court granted it a charter, with the title, President and fellows of Harvard C
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Owen , Robert 1771 -1858 (search)
Owen, Robert 1771-1858
Social reformer; born in Newtown, North Wales, May 14, 1771.
At the age of eighteen he was part proprietor of a cotton-mill, and became a proprietor of cotton-mills at Lanark, Scotland, where he introduced reforms.
In 1812 he published his New views of Society, etc., and afterwards his Book of the New moral world, in which he maintained a theory of modified communism.
Immensely wealthy, he distributed tracts inculcating his views very widely, and soon had a host o d the same experiment in Great Britain, and afterwards in Mexico, with the same result.
Yet he continued during his life to advocate his peculiar social notions as the founder of a system of religion and society according to reason.
During his latter years he was a believer in spiritualism, and became convinced of the immortality of the soul.
He was the originator of the labor leagues, from which sprang the Chartist movement.
He died in Newtown, North Wales, Nov. 19, 1858.
See New harmony.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Riker , James 1822 -1889 (search)
Riker, James 1822-1889
Historian; born in New York City, May 11, 1822.
He is the author of A brief history of the Riker family; The annals of Newtown; Origin and early annals of Harlem; The Indian history of Tioga county, etc. He died in Waverly, N. Y., in July, 1889.